This last Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, The Reader crossed the 20-year mark for covering what’s become an incredibly vibrant, world-famous artistic community and for uncovering the news that the mainstream media misses. Cultural coverage and watchdog, alternative journalism have been our hallmark and it’s because you, our readers, pick up this paper every week and support our advertisers that we’ve been able to reach...

Do you get those annoying springtime symptoms of runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing and wheezing that we lump into the big bag known as “hay fever”? And as spring turns into summer, those symptoms simply get worse? Well, don't feel too bad. The World Health Organization estimates that over 2.1 billion people on the planet suffer from the collective group of symptoms known officially as allergic rhinitis. And though...

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote famed Peer Gynt, a wild, wide-ranging, world-crossing adventure of a foolish self-centered man who’s not so easy to love or to idolize, heavens above, told by a cast of more than 50 characters. Oops. Will Eno (called by The New York Times “a Samuel Beckett for...